MESA, Ariz. — On June 20th, 2019 Montas was a revelation, his splitter skyrocketing his strikeout rate and minimizing his ERA to All-Star proportions. On the morning of June 21, Montas was packing up his locker in Oakland, banished to the Arizona complex after being handed down an 80-game suspension for violating MLB’s performance enhancing drug policy.
Save for a start in Anaheim intersecting with the sliver of time intersecting his lifted suspension and the postseason he was disqualified to participate in.
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The new year washed Montas’ slate clean. He’s back in camp with new hair and the same confidence he’d projected after shutting out the Tampa Bay Rays on June 20th.